Stories by Ken Shulman

Amateur astronomer Jeremiah Horrox was the only person in England, and possibly the entire world, convinced that a Venus solar transit would occur in 1639, an event that Johannes Kepler himself had failed to predict...

June 1, 2012 — Ken Shulman

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